Sphedanolestes

Sphedanolestes
Sphedanolestes cingulatus
Scientific classification Edit this classification
Kingdom: Animalia
Phylum: Arthropoda
Clade: Pancrustacea
Class: Insecta
Order: Hemiptera
Suborder: Heteroptera
Family: Reduviidae
Subfamily: Harpactorinae
Tribe: Harpactorini
Genus: Sphedanolestes
Stal, 1866
Species

See text

Synonyms
  • Graptosphodrus Stål, 1866
  • Haemactus Stål, 1874
  • Lissonyctes Stål, 1871
  • Sphactes Stål, 1870
  • Sphydrinus Stål, 1874

Sphedanolestes is a large genus of assassin bugs in the family (Reduviidae), subfamily Harpactorinae. There are more than 190 described species, which are found in southern Europe, Africa and Asia.

Species

BioLib lists the following:

References

  1. ↑ Stål C (1866) Ofvers. VetenskAkad. Förh. Stockholm, 23.
  2. ↑ Dunston Ambrose (2006). "A checklist of Indian assassin bugs (Insect: Hempitera: Reduviidae) with taxonomic status, distribution and diagnostic morphological characteristics" (PDF). Zoos' Print Journal. 21 (9): 2406.
  3. ↑ Maldonado-Capriles, J., 1990. Systematic Catalogue of the Reduviidae of the World (Insecta: Heteroptera). A special edition of Caribbean Journal of Science, Puerto Rico. 694 pp.
  4. 1 2 BioLib.cz Taxon profile: genus Sphedanolestes Stål, 1866 (retrieved 13 May 2020)
  5. ↑ GBIF: Sphedanolestes Stål, 1866
  6. ↑ Wanzhi Cai, Xinyan Cai and Yunzhen Wang (2004). "Notes of the genus Sphedanolestes Stal (Heteroptera: Reduviidae: Harpactorinae) from China, with the description of the three new species" (PDF). The Raffles Bulletin of Zoology. 52 (2): 379–388.
  7. ↑ Das S, Manohar S, Krishnan S, Sivarama JV, Ambrose DP (2008) Redscription, postembryonic development and behaviour of a Harpacorine assassin bug. Sphedanolestes himalayensis Distant (Hemiptera: Reduviidae) Entomologia Croatica Vol. 12. Num. 1: 37-54.